dmitriid

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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Why anyone would value an older building over a new one, I have no idea, as it's entirely irrational Because new buildings these days are invariably the same boring gray dull shit that robs any place of its identity?
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Compare that to the global state everywhere of signals/reactive/observables-based approaches like MobX or RxJS. What are you on about? Redux is literally about global state everywhere. But with three to four layers of abstr
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by dmitriid 4y ago
useEffect, useContext, and usSyncExternalStore are no longer about "local only". And you never use only local state. You advocate for Redux in a different comment which is literally a global state where you are going to have som
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by dmitriid 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35038100
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Czechia is a European country you want to look at for an example that you can have gun laws that allow civilians to own handguns and carry them for defensive purposes without problems. Let's see: --- start quote --- A gun in the C
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by dmitriid 4y ago
And yet all of these issues, when they come up, are invariably happening in the "land of the free", not in the "totalitarian state dystopia of the EU and neighboring countries".
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by dmitriid 4y ago
If no one is paying, content on IPFS will disappear, and very soon.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35029186
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's both, really. Let's say you're a teacher with known dissident tendencies. Boom. Suddenly the only place you can get work is one of these remote regions with lax control. Yes there is less government there, and you can ev
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> What I like about Redux is that it takes the immutable functional approach Strange that you don't like spaghetti, but then praise Redux that is spaghetti exemplified: dozens of functions, and wrappers, and hooks eerywhere. Trying
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by dmitriid 4y ago
A series of articles from the author of Solid discussing all those tweets, and more, including the history of signals and their vurrent state. - The Evolution of Signals in JavaScript, https://dev.to/this-is-learning/th
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The number of people who can attribute their exceptionalism to genetics is minuscule compared to people who are just wealthy and connected. Even those that you assume "just have it" most likely just have enough means and connectio
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by dmitriid 4y ago
That anyone at the very least needs access to a smartphone, powerful-enough computer, and internet. 18% of households in the US say they can't afford home internet service: https://ntia.gov/blog/2022/switche
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Having disposable income and connections means much much more than genetics. This comment has the relevant quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35024721
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by dmitriid 4y ago
If there's a seemingly "free region" that everyone knows about and deflects to, you can be 100% sure that the state knows about it, knows everyone who "deflected" there, and keeps tabs on everyone. A smart authorita
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I absolutely love this theory. Now I definitely need to re-watch the movie
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Have you not seen the documentary "Prestige"?! /s
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Liveview solves the "write a fully dynamic and interactive application with next to zero Javascript that you need to write by hand" or, if you will, "server-driven UI apps". And it's hard to overstate, but to also p
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Designers tend to love the Vignelli map, but everyone in the city hated it Those designers were/are more illustrators than designers [1]. Design is, or at least should be, as much about the function of an object as about it&#x27
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It's not possible to build GQL query footguns. GQL literally allows unbounded queries. All the "tooling" around like "field complexity", "data loaders" and other hacks are literally that: hacks and wo
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This is essentially a solved problem. You simply > you simply integrate > or something "simply", "essentially", "something". An equivalent of "just". In reality: none of this is solved, non
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by dmitriid 4y ago
This reminds me how PHP ended up with weird characters for various things (like namespace separators) because it was just easier to parse.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
GQL, in no particular order: - GQL allows unbounded arbitrary queries. The awkward workarounds turn it into REST with none of REST semantics - default query method (POST) cannot be cached by literally anything in the infrastructure because
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by dmitriid 4y ago
That literally means "no expectation of profitability". Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012114
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> No, there are no "zero expectations for a company to ever turn profitable". If you ever tried to get investor money you'll know how hard is to prove to them you have a good path to profitability. And yet, YCombinator&#x2
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> EU already lacks big tech compared to US, China and Russia US has next to zero privacy protections, and unlimited investor money with zero expectations for a company to ever turn profitable. E.g. all of YCombinator's "top com
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> And Emacs Lisp doesn't feel super accessible to most software developers under 40. Or over 40 (I'm 42) :) > Almost all its conventions come from a small little island, it's like marsupials in Australia, their own litt
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> "oh but in Emacs you can do..." a thing that I either don't need, or I don't care about or or it's already available in pretty much any IDE out of the box. Most people advocating for emacs or vim usually have n
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> but what other editors have a macro language that combines the power and accessbility of emacs lisp? Is it accessible? Why would I want to spend time learning the idiosyncrasies of a 40-year-old editor to write something that I might u
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Paint as science, especially in the context of "we need a newer better paint with better reflective properties and whiter than white" is a very, very modern idea. Light and color weren't scientific concepts until basically

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